It’s been 9 months since the first installs of Tesla’s Powerwall2 in Australia, and now you can enable programmatic Time-of-Use power-cost tariff awareness for your PW2. This means that you can have your PW2 “save” it’s capacity during cheap-power off-peak periods when it’s likely that the PW2 will discharge to empty before the peak period
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Yes, just in case your Powerwall2-monitoring-OCD is not satisfied by the Tesla App, or PVOutput, there is yet another 3rd party option available, and finally a use for the otherwise-banished Metro interface on Windows10. This time I’m going to introduce you to Powerwall Companion, a Windows 10 “app” that can be used on your desktop
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If you’ve got a Powerwall2, Tesla lets you keep an eye on it via their iOS or Android App, (and now Windows 10 App) which means it’s only visible on compatible phones/tablets (or a PC if you want to put up with running an Android emulator), and it only provides today, yesterday, last week, and
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Google Home has been available in ‘straya for a couple of months now, and it works well at controlling new “smart” wifi LED bulbs and power points. What if you want to use it to voice-control your other appliances – the ones that are not wifi-enabled and are too dumb to talk to Google? Edit
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Back in June I had a Tesla Powerwall2 installed, one of the first in Australia. It’s been three months, and going well, so herewith an update. I’ve given the battleship-grey Gateway and old brown powerbox a coat of white housepaint with a roller and they came up very nice. The installers never came back with
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Late last year, Elon Musk surprised everyone by announcing a new version of Tesla’s less-than-a-year-old Powerwall home battery system, with double the capacity for the same dough….the other players in this industry must have been gnashing their teeth, but bravely soldiered on with the expectation that “it’ll take them forever to deliver”. Not so –
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